Hire DevOps Engineers

We screen for operational experience specifically. Writing a pipeline is common; keeping a platform healthy through upgrades, incidents and audits is what separates a platform engineer from someone who has read the documentation.

A typical week

• Codifying infrastructure so environments can be rebuilt rather than repaired by hand
• Making deployments boring — automated, observable and quick to roll back
• Investigating incidents and removing the cause rather than restarting the symptom
• Managing secrets, access and image supply chain so security is default, not a project
• Reviewing capacity and cost before the invoice becomes the alerting system

What we screen for

How we assess this role before anyone reaches your shortlist.

• Can they debug a failing production system methodically under pressure
• Do they write infrastructure code that a colleague can review and reason about
• How do they design alerts so on-call engineers still trust the pager
• Do they treat security as part of the platform rather than a later hardening phase
• Will they tell a client when Kubernetes is more complexity than the problem needs

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